In this guide
Use this material to examine your own work. Confirm current requirements, forms and dates with ICE before applying.
The Chartered Professional Review Progressive assesses the additional Chartered requirements for engineers who are already IEng MICE. Your existing registration provides evidence of the requirements you have already met.
The route has two parts, and they are separate.
First, your IPD has to be topped up to Chartered level. If you completed a Training Agreement at Incorporated level, that agreement can simply be extended or reactivated using the transfer form, and ICE's Training Scheme guidance is explicit that no additional fee is payable when an agreement is transferred or reactivated for CPRP or CIPRP. Only the attribute levels between your previous completion and the new one need to be documented and achieved. If you completed IPD another way, or have been working since without a scheme, the Career Appraisal can be used as the top-up instead.
Second, you sit a Chartered Professional Review Progressive. It is a Chartered review: the same presentation, interview and Communication Task, with the Chartered timings and the Chartered Communication Task format.
Assessment scope
The progressive route assesses the "And …" clauses together with professional commitment. Read them together to understand the additional requirements.
At a glance
| Attribute area | What the progressive route adds |
|---|---|
| Understanding and Practical Application of Engineering | Engage in creating or introducing new, advancing or improved techniques and technology; take an active role in identifying and defining requirements, challenges, risks and opportunities; undertake design, development and implementation of solutions. |
| Management and Leadership | Manage — organise, direct and control — programme or schedule tasks and resources; lead or influence teams and technical specialisms; develop others; demonstrate continuous quality improvement and promote best practice. |
| Commercial Ability | Manage, prepare and control costs and budgets of a significant engineering task or project; demonstrate sound judgement on statutory, contractual and commercial issues. |
| Health, Safety and Welfare | Demonstrate leadership by promoting good practice and improvements. |
| Sustainable Development | Take a professional and responsible role in improvements that support sustainable development and reduce resource demand, across the whole project life cycle. |
| Interpersonal Skills and Communication | Communicate new concepts and ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders; proactively manage diversity and inclusion. |
| Professional Commitment | Exercise sound holistic independent judgement and accept responsibility. |
Derived from the Chartered attribute extensions in ICE's guidance. Fourteen statements in total.
How to approach it
- 01
Check the educational base first
The Incorporated educational base is not automatically the Chartered one. Resolve this before anything else: Further Learning, an Academic Assessment or the Technical Report Route may be needed, and each takes time.
- 02
Decide how you will top up your IPD
If you completed a Training Agreement, ask your SCE about extending or reactivating it with the transfer form. If not, a Career Appraisal top-up report of up to 3,000 words is the usual route.
- 03
Choose work from since your IPR
It is far easier to evidence the Chartered clauses from recent work where you held greater responsibility than to re-argue your Incorporated projects at a higher level. Reviewers can usually tell which you have done.
- 04
Do not re-evidence what you already hold
Your Incorporated registration establishes the base. Spending 3,000 words re-proving it wastes the space in which you were supposed to show leadership, definition and holistic judgement.
- 05
Prepare for a Chartered review
The Communication Task at CPRP is the Chartered format: 90 minutes, two scenarios each with a response format, one answered. Not the Incorporated one you may have sat before.
Official sources
Selected publisher pages were rechecked in September 2026. Other source records were last checked in July 2026. Open the latest official document before relying on a requirement.